Title of the work:

Stairs of Life

I had just left the upper floor of the Palazzo Reale after an exhibition in Milan when I took this photograph. At the time, I had no specific intention: instinct guided me, the need to capture something I felt. Only later, looking at it again, did I realize that the image had much more to say. The ambiguous perspective of the stairs, which seem to ascend even as they descend, made me think about how we experience certain moments in our lives: we move without knowing whether we are moving forward or backward, whether we are growing or collapsing. There is something reminiscent of Escher's lithographic work "Relativity," both in the gray tones of black and white and in the suspended, disorienting dimension. And it is precisely there, in that apparent confusion, that I feel I find meaning.

Technical specifications:

• Milan, 2025
• 55x41 cm; ex. 1/7
• Fine Art inkjet print (giclée)

This work was donated by Zorza Niccolo.

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